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Welcome to Church Leadership Resources

Our mission at Church Leadership Resources is to provide high quality resources at little or no cost to users.
The electronic formated materials on this website are under Bill Scheidler's copyright allowing pastors and church leaders easy access.

“Equipping the Body of Christ to Fulfill Purpose and Achieve Destiny”

About Us

Church Leadership Resources

Church Leadership Resources was birthed out of the heart of Bill Scheidler to equip pastors and leaders to be able to raise up and to disciple their own team of leaders in the church, by the church and for the church. Bill believes that the local church should be the primary place where leaders are equipped for and released into ministry. Many pastors understand this also, but they often lack the resources for this or they cannot afford to tap into the resources that are available. Sometimes in order to tap into what is available they must become officially connected to another organization where the program requirements are not under their control.

The only other option for many pastors is to send their youngest and brightest away for training. In this case these young people rarely stay connected to the mother church, they learn someone else’s philosophy of ministry and they rarely return to strengthen their local church when their education is completed.

Church Leadership Resources’ mission is to provide high quality resources for free or at an affordable cost to the user. Because all of the material on this website is under the copyright of Bill Scheidler and all of the services are provided in an electronic format, pastors and church leaders can easily access the relevant material that they need for a fraction of what these resources would normally cost.

Church Leadership Resources will continue to develop more material for use in the church world to assist every local church in becoming the full expression of what God ordained that it should be.

Bill Scheidler

Executive Director

About Bill

About Bill

Bill Scheidler served as a pastor and elder at City Bible Church (formerly Bible Temple) in Portland, Oregon from 1974-2005. During that time he functioned as a professor at Portland Bible College specializing the Local Church, Pastoral Ministry and Church Planting. For fifteen years he also oversaw the Pastoral Department of the church and the church planting process. He was actively involved in mentoring church leaders and church planters within City Bible Church and also assisting other churches in developing their leadership and church planting ministries.

Bill was involved in the formation of Ministers’ Fellowship International (MFI) in 1986 and worked alongside of Dick Iverson, Frank Damazio, Wendell Smith and the Apostolic Leadership Team of MFI as the National and International Director from 1997 to 2005. He has been actively involved in training leaders, writing and assisting in the growth and development of churches both nationally and internationally for decades.

In October of 2005, He and his wife JoAnne moved to South Africa where they are served the vision of City Life Church in Johannesburg, South Africa (a church plant from City Bible Church) as well as mentoring pastors, church leaders and church planting ministries primarily in the southern Africa nations.

In 2012 Bill and JoAnne returned to the States where he has been giving himself to personal coaching, church consulting, leadership training, conference speaking and the development of additional resources. At present Bill resides in Eagle Point, Oregon.

Bill is the author and/or co-author of several books including Apostles-The Fathering Servant, Growing Strong Churches, The Local Church Today, Principles of Church Life and Present Day Truths.

Bill owes a great deal of his ministry direction and spiritual understanding to his primary mentors in the 1970’s—Dick Iverson and Kevin J. Conner.